Philosophy:
- Don’t read emails the second they arrive. Let them sit for a bit and then read. This preserves concentration.
Obfuscation
Email obfuscation is a way to prevent malicious bots from scraping your email (to combat spam and such) if you have it publicly available online, essentially by displaying it in a way that isn’t plain text.
A great resource on what constitutes an effective, accessible method of obfuscation is here. On my website, I use a CSS-based plaintext method (number 1.5 on the list linked above):
span.email b {
display: none;
}<span class="email">jasonrx.zhang@mail.<b>mail</b>utoronto<b>.utoronto</b>.ca</span>